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Steam Railway #183 1995 July Ligting up a locomotive Taw Valley overhauled
Steam Railway #183 1995 July
CONTENTS
COVER STORIES.
TAW VALLEY OVERHAULED IN TEN MONTHS!PAGE 11
`PACIFICS' FOR `PETERBOROUGH 150' ...PAGE 9
LYNTON REVIVAL CAMPAIGNPAGE 9
LIGHTING UP A LOCOMOTIVE PAGE 32
'SCOTSMAN' COULD RUN AGAIN THIS SUMMER ....PAGE 7
MAIN LINE SEASIDESTEAM IN EAST ANGLIAPAGE 74
REGULARS
6 NEWS More than 15 pages of news - the biggest and best news section money can buy!
25 MORGAN Columnist David Morgan comments on payments to the directors of private railways.
26 REVIEWS We sample new books and videos - what are this month's best buys? Turn to page 26 to find out!
29 MAILBAG Reader's views, comments and suggestions.
45 GALLERY Top link photography from Britain's leading steam photographers.
49 MAINLINE POINTS Don't forget to collect your coupons for our superb money saving offers!
51 PERMANENT WAY AND NOT SO PERMANENT WAY A reminder of GWR branch line steam on the outskirts of Bristol.
61 THE GLORIOUS YEARS A superb selection of top quality pre-Nationalisation black & white images by Norman Glover.
66 OFFERS IN THE REGIONS Property for sale with a distinct railway flavour.
70 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS The mysteries of steam unravelled by our team of experts.
74 DOWN MAIN David Wilcock reports on the current state of main line steam and asks, when is a special not special?
78 THE THEAKSTON ONE-STOP STEAM GUIDE Lynne Best's authoritative guide lists more than 120 places to visit for steam this summer - you'll not be stuck for a day out!
90 MIXED TRAFFIC Editor Nigel Harris signs-off with railway humour, a `Swindon dance' and the ultimate in special headboards!
SPECIAL FEATURES
32 HERE'S ONE I PREPARED EARLIER...! 'Lighting up'... 'oiling round'... 'driver's daily exam.' They're all phrases we are familiar with but what do they actually mean and what's really involved? Editor Nigel Harris pays a visit to the Bluebell Railway to spend a working day with driver Clive Groome and fireman Danny O'Connell to check-out the Bluebell preparation routine.
41 IT'S SPOTLESS, IT'S CLEAN IT'S COAL BOARD STEAM! Mention Coal Board steam and images of dirty, neglected, rundown 'Austerity' 0-6-OST steam locomotives readily spring to mind. During industrial steam's final hours this might have been the case, but it wasn't always so. Through the lens of #Peters we recall better times when steam engines were a colliery's pride and joy.
52 THE IRISH PRE-GROUPING TIME-WARP Keith Pirt concludes his travels in the Emerald Isle in 1956, with a selection of glorious colour images of a system stuck in a 40-year time warp, with ancient engines, carriages and signalling which was soon to be swept away by dieselisation and closures.
54 PRESERVATION WITHOUT TRAINS There's much more to railway preservation than shiny locomotives and carriages. Mel Holley reports from Cheltenham Race Course station where a small group has saved a unique GWR station from being destroyed by vandals.
57OVERWORKED AND OVER HERE! As the Allies prepared to invade Europe during the Second World War, they had an urgent need for more than 2,000 brand new steam locomotives. In the third part of our series to coincide with VE-Day, Philip Atkins explains how the combined massive resources of America's engine builders produced the 'S I 60' 2-8-0 in a very short timescale.
68 GETTING UP THE DEVIL'S NOSE! With a spectacular 1-in-I8 zig-zag climb, a double hairpin and gutsy 2-8-0 locomotives, Ecuador's Guayaquil & Quito Railway is an extraordinary line. With news of its threatened closure, Gavin Morrison presents some breath-taking pictures of one of the last steam wonders in the world!
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